DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Bespectacled, tall, and barrel-chested, with blonde hair and a beard punctuated by gray, Cole stood confidently before a classroom of conference attendees at a University of Oregon environmental law symposium in 2008, less than a year before his death. Abascal gave Cole a desk and a phone, and Cole got to work. Early Influences.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

At least a million Uyghurs have been forced into detention camps over the past six years, where they are subjected to beatings, torture, forced sterilisation and political re-education. government has described China’s actions in Xinjiang as a form of genocide.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In 2012 she tweeted that “climate change policies are pushing up domestic gas & elec prices” and wrote a Telegraph article that year headlined “Green policies are costing Britons the earth” making the same point and citing IEA research. She has blamed previous energy bill rises on renewables.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

Political will must be galvanized and renewed as we emerge from the fall-out of Covid-19, and energies refocused on climate change as soon as resource is available. He joined Logan Energy Limited in 2008 as Director of Operations and became Managing Director and CEO in 2012. Policy-driven benefits.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 8, 2020

The United States Environmental Protection Agency defines environmental justice as “the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies.”

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 18, 2019

The substantial variability of climate change has contributed to detrimental effects in the economic, social, political and environmental sphere that will continue to persist long after we are gone. PHIL, vol 4, 2012, [link] Accessed 2 June 2019. INT’L POSTGRADUATE J. Annas, Julia. 19, 22-23, Accessed 2 June 2019. Cochrane, Alisdair.

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Defend Our Future

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Richard is a California native who moved to Arizona to attend the University of Arizona in 2012. He recently graduated from Northern Arizona University with a double major in Criminology and Political Science with a Spanish minor. Currently majoring in Secondary Education with a double minor in English and Political Science.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2023

That is the hypothesis advanced in a new report published today by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. This includes a need to understand legislative developments holistically, rather than focusing on individual measures in isolation".

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Grist

DECEMBER 3, 2019

When did you both realize that the conventional wisdom about the framers of Colorado River law using bad data was incorrect? It was much easier to divide up a larger pie politically than it was to deal with reality. Case in point is the 2012 Colorado River Basin study by the Bureau of Reclamation. Was there an “aha” moment?

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Business Green

JULY 31, 2021

A raft of UK supermarkets and retailers have also threatened to boycott products from Brazil over a law proposed in Brazil's parliament that environmental campaigners claim could authorise yet further destruction of the rainforest. Reign of fire. The area of land under embargo has remained roughly the same.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2021

Strong political will is needed to make affordable, clean, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all a reality by 2030," said UNECE executive secretary Olga Algayerova. "As Overall, the group gave the government's draft climate law a score of 3.7 Overall, the group gave the government's draft climate law a score of 3.7

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

From 2002 to 2012 Coco was President and COO of Taos, a Gartner global top 20 leader in IT cloud professional and managed services. Before that, Veena practiced law in India. Veena received a Masters in Law degree from Washington University in St. Honors) degree from National Law School from India University, Bangalore.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 22, 2020

These low-income communities tend to have the least political power to keep pollution generators out of their backyards. According to a 2012 NAACP study , communities of color breathe in 40% more polluted air than White neighborhoods. The term environmental racism Environmental racism is not a new concept.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Other studies, like one published in 2012 in GBC Bioenergy , directly challenge the idea that wood pellets are renewable energy because forests can be replanted. Their reliance on the energy source to meet stringent emissions targets is now heavily political — and hard to correct — despite the growing scientific evidence against it. .

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Titled Local Edge: An Inquiry Into Climate Politics and The Economics of Recovery , the report argues that there is an urgent need to deliver emission reduction solutions at a local level in three crucial areas: heat energy and buildings; food, land use, and nature; and transport and air quality.

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Grist

JUNE 12, 2024

The campaign was a deliberate attempt to divert attention from more meaningful solutions like bottle bills, yet environmental groups embraced it, according to Recycling Reconsidered , a 2012 book by Samantha MacBride, who directed New York City’s sanitation department for two decades. The laws eventually passed in 39 states.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

From 2004 to 2012, NW Natural expanded gas infrastructure across Oregon while executives downplayed employee concerns about billing accuracy issues resulting from the incorporation of lower-quality gas into the company’s distribution system, according to internal emails obtained by DeSmog. A Sidelined Solution.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

One accident there — a 2012 fire — sent a cloud of black smoke billowing over San Francisco Bay and left thousands of local residents struggling to breathe. This souring of relationships was particularly disastrous given that many saw California’s original climate law as an explicit effort to advance environmental justice.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In a victory for climate scientists, jurors in Michael Mann’s defamation case against Rand Simberg and Mark Steyn awarded Mann $1 million in punitive damages for defamatory comments made in 2012. In a literal sense, of course, the judge was correct: Defamation laws say nothing about climate change or climate science or climate scient ists.

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Business Green

JANUARY 23, 2023

per cent of all openings in 2012, to just 1.1 Politics abhors a vacuum, perceived or otherwise, and as such it is little surprise to see Labour making its green industrial strategy core to its efforts to woo the business community. It found the share of green employment opportunities dropped from 1.8 per cent in 2021.

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Grist

MAY 24, 2023

Set in the Gulf Coast, this 2012 fantasy-drama is the only Oscar-nominated film to acknowledge climate change (despite being hailed as a climate film, Don’t Look Up actually handles it metaphorically). . . “I think stories that help us become more comfortable with uncertainty are really, really important,” she says.

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Business Green

AUGUST 2, 2021

But in keeping with the seriousness of the Covid-era the next month looks set to be dominated by an intensifying and hugely important political row over the future of both the British economy and the planet itself. But such an effort has not materialised.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

The Environmental Defense Fund, the American Forest Foundation, American Forests, and TNC are also members of the Forest-Climate Working Group, a political advocacy organization, alongside scores of wood product companies, including Enviva and Drax, biomass energy behemoths whose carbon-intensive operations have polluted U.S.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

She came to the co-op from International Flavors & Fragrances in 2012 as supply chain and operations executive vice president and became COO several years later. She is a chicken farmer, a zoo doctor, a firefighter, a polar marine biologist, a park ranger and a political candidate. One in five is Black.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

iii] The Canadian Public Health Association ,“Health Professionals to Federal Political Parties: Action Needed to Prevent Catastrophic Climate Change.” Sea Grant Law & Policy Journal (2020, Forthcoming). 2012 Jun;12(3):221-7. 2012 Jun;12(3):221-7. April 5, 2019. Febuary 5, 2019 [link]. [iv]. Chan, Margaret.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Other studies, like one published in 2012 in GBC Bioenergy , directly challenge the idea that wood pellets are renewable energy because forests can be replanted. Their reliance on the energy source to meet stringent emissions targets is now heavily political — and hard to correct — despite the growing scientific evidence against it.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Over the course of his three-decade career at Microsoft, the law school graduate has made a name for himself through a string of diplomatic successes as he helped settle disputes with some of the firm's biggest competitors and bring to a close long-running antitrust battles with US government and the European Commission.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

“This is a meritless case, and we await the court’s decision,” said Nick Paulocci, director of public affairs and press secretary of the NYC Law Department. Between 2012 and 2015, 220 institutions committed to redirect some or all of their fossil fuel holdings, a number that has only risen since.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

She came to the co-op from International Flavors & Fragrances in 2012 as supply chain and operations executive vice president and became COO several years later. She is a chicken farmer, a zoo doctor, a firefighter, a polar marine biologist, a park ranger and a political candidate. One in five is Black.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

It also birthed a class of oil barons whose wealth and conservative political interests shaped national politics and popularized Texas culture in movies and TV shows. Those left behind tend to be poorer and have less political power. In fact, the agency rarely fines companies that violate Texas air pollution laws.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Given the challenges of energy transition, Europe is optimally positioned to lead this movement by implementing political and economic policies that will incentivize oil and gas companies to leave fossil fuels behind and make the transition to deep geothermal. He founded his law firm in Berlin in 1992.

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 23, 2019

47 in 2012. Stiglitz:2012) Also by this author: Food Security vs Legalizing Cannabis Much of the inequality that exists today is a result of government policy, both what the government does and what it doesn’t do (Stiglitz, 2012). More equal societies have.3 3 Gini coefficients or below and most unequal societies have.5

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Hayek told Fisher to forget about getting into politics and to engage instead in a “war of ideas.” Suddenly Fisher had a lot of time on his hands and a lot of people wanted to know how the IEA had managed to push UK politics so far to the right and so quickly. conservative politics — are all members).

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Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

After Toledo’s water crisis, Ohio went further, passing a law that prohibits farms in the western Lake Erie region from applying fertilizer on frozen or rain-saturated soil. But here, too, most fertilizer runoff efforts are voluntary — and exceptions undercut the state’s 2015 ban.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

It’s time to kick toxic fossil fuel interests out of politics once and for all,” Caroline Lucas, Green Party MP for Brighton Pavilion, told DeSmog. It’s deeply concerning that Downing Street’s doors are open to fracking enthusiasts,” Good Law Project Executive Director Jolyon Maugham told DeSmog. ’ 2022 report into think tanks.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Braverman’s Head of Communications David Scullion is deputy political editor of The Critic magazine, which regularly publishes articles attacking climate action by Craig Mackinlay , a Conservative backbencher who runs the NZSG with Baker. Anne-Marie Trevelyan – Transport Secretary.

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Grist

OCTOBER 19, 2020

It’s exactly how politics played out in California in 2016 as the state struggled to reauthorize its keystone climate-change law. In California, when lawmakers passed the cap and trade law, they bartered away more direct regulations on sooty smokestacks. Jerry Brown (left), which stripped away local air pollution laws.

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